Pics from 9-16-26 Sonoma Wednesday night drags. Good day to get a lot of test runs in with the "early" 4 pm start time. We made 4 test runs before eliminations started. We would have been able to get a 5th test run but a Mercedes had a conflict with a cement wall and that delayed things a bit. The wind was present pretty much the entire evening, so not any out of this world times to report.
I was having a rough time the first part of the night as I could not get my reaction times down in any of the qualifying runs. First round I am paired against none other than are very own Merlin on His Sur Ron. Merlin had been having some great reaction times in qualifying and was very consistent on his et's also. I figured I would be going home early tonight because I had been all over the place. As luck would have it, I managed to get a .043 reaction time and Merlin stumbled with a .113 reaction time. I ran a 9.355 on a 9.30 dial. Merlin ran a 16.164 on a 15.90 dial. I win by a .2990 margin. The next round I get a bye and head to the 3rd round. Next up is my old dragstrip adversary Doug Love on his new Triumph T120 Bonneville. Doug is a legend and we have had some good races over the years. I should have bought a lottery ticket after this race. I dial a 9.27 and run a 9.30 with a .013 reaction time! Doug dials 12.76 and runs a 12.77 with a .079 reaction time. I win by a margin of only .0462, the difference in the reaction times is how I won. What a race. Next, I am in the finals again Jesse Dolan on his overheating and battery draining Aprilia. Jesse had to rerun his race a round earlier due to technical difficulty with the timers, so his bike is running a little hot with such a short cool down period. He pushes his bike up to the burnout out box, jump starts it and then we are ready to race. The light go green and Jesse takes off, then a split second later, he spins bad and the race is over.
Next race is October 14 and that will be the next to last race of the year.
